Michael Arndt Movies
Onetime assistant to Matthew Broderick, Michael Arndt achieved the ultimate dream for a screenwriter: his first script to be picked up went on to win an Academy Award. When the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine hit theaters, it went from a sleeper hit to a critical smash, invading the Oscars with nods for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Alan Arkin, and Best Supporting Actress for ten-year-old Abigail Breslin. Arkin joined Arndt in taking home a statue that night, and soon the screenwriter was back to work, helping pen the script for Toy Story 3. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide- 2010
Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo co-director Lee Unkrich strikes out on his own with this installment into the popular computer-animated series detailing the adventures of wide-eyed cowboy doll Woody and space-ranger action figure Buzz Lightyear. Oscar-nominated scribe Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine) handles screenwriting duties. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 2009
Legally Blonde and Walk the Line star Reese Witherspoon headlines this remake of the classic 1939 screwball comedy. Penned by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, the original Midnight starred Claudette Colbert as a destitute Parisian who is enticed into posing as a Hungarian countess in order to save the marriage of a wealthy aristocrat. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Reese Witherspoon
When a pudgy, bespectacled seven-year-old, Olive (Abigail Breslin), voices her desire to take home the coveted Little Miss Sunshine crown at an upcoming beauty pageant, her wildly dysfunctional family sets out on an interstate road trip to ensure her a clear shot at realizing her dreams in former music video directorial team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' quirky feature debut, starring Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, and Toni Collette. Despite early career success as an outspoken motivational speaker, family patriarch Richard (Kinnear) continues to cling to his "Refuse to Lose" philosophy, much to the chagrin of his increasingly annoyed spouse, Sheryl (Collette). Add into the mix a Nietzsche-reading teenage son (Paul Dano) who has taken a vow of silence until he finds his fate as a fighter pilot; a horny, heroin-happy grandfather (Alan Arkin) with a penchant for creative profanity; and a suicidal genius (Carell) and Proust scholar still reeling about losing both his male lover and his MacArthur Foundation genius grant -- and the stage is set for a road trip in which sanity is sure to take the back seat. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, (more)
